Side and center dump coke-car



No. 752,289. PATENTED FEB. 16, 1904.

J. M. HANSEN.

SIDE AND CENTER DUMP COKE GAR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 13. 1903.

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No. 752,299. PATENT-ED FEB. 16, 1904. J. M. HANSEN.

SIDE AND CENTER DUMP GOKE GAR.

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JOHN M. HANSEN, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SIDE AND CENTER DUMP COKE-CAR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 752,289, dated February 16, 1904.

Application filed A g t 13 1903- To (tZZ whont it, may concern:

Be it known that i, JOHN M. HANs'EN,a resident of Pittsburg, in the county-of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Side and (Jentcr Dump (Joke-(Jars; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof. I

My invention relates to railway-cars, and more especially to cars of the hopper-bottom type designed for carrying coke, coal, and similar substances.

The object of my invention is to improve a car of the kind above specified in details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of 'onehalf of the car, showing the roof removed on the lower half of said figure.- Fig. 2 is a horizontal section exposing the underframe. Fig. 3 is a side view of one-half of the car. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section of onehalf ofthe car, its end portion being taken at the transverse center 1 of the car and its other portion being taken through oneof the hoppers. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the car on the line 55, Fig. 1. Fig.6 on its left-hand portion is an end View of the car and on the right-hand portion a transverse section on the line 6 6, Fig. 1.

The underframe comprises center sills .1,

body-bolsters 2,:draftbeams 3, end sills 4, and

suitable connecting members therefor. The

, center sills may be of any type and are shown the end sill.

- as rolled channel-beams placed with their flanges toward each other- They extend slightly beyond the body-bolsters 3, and to the endsthereof are spliced the draft-sills 4, the

latter extending outwardly slightly beyond The end sill is a rolled channel placed with its flanges projecting inwardly and being notched at its lower side to permit the draft-beams to passthrough thesame. A hood 5, of pressed metal, is riveted to the end sill at the center of the car and serves tosupport the outer. ends of the draft-beams. I This hood is provided with an opening 6 for the passage of the draw-bar shankand supports the draw-bar carrier 7.

The body-wlaolster is composed of a web-plate 8, extending from side to side 21-C104S'i3l16pui Serial No. 169,379. (No model.)

and in height extending from the bottom of the center sills to a considerable distance above the same. This Web-plate is flanged at its upper edge, as at 10, to provide asupport for the inclinedfloor-platcs 11. side to side of the car a considerable distance above the centersills and in proximity to the flupper edge of the web plate are a pair of flanged bars 13, shown as angles, which, in

is placed the usual brace 18, and atransverse tie member or cover-plate extends underneath the center sills out toward the car sides and is riveted to the angle-bars 17 secured to the lower edges of the web-plates. This cover: plate serves to strengthen the compression member of the bolster and has the usual center plate and side bearings riveted thereto. Diagonal braces 20 extend from the corners of the car inwardly to the center sills andbolster, being secured at their outer ends to gus set-plates 21, riveted to the cornersof thecar,

and at their inner ends to connection-plates 22,

secured to the webs of the draft-sills and to the web-plates of the body-bolster. The parts of the car so fardescribed are substantially the same as heretofore used and patented by me, andthe specific construction of the parts which'have been shown have been selected for purposes of illustration merely, it being understood that they may be varied within limits to suit the convenience of the builder-or user.

I The car has. no distinct side sills, but the sides of the car-body serve both as side sills and car sides. These sides are of acompound type, being partly plate-girders and partly truss-girders. Each car side comprises a plate 25, extending from bolster to bolster and having an angle-bar 2f riveted to its loweredge and a similar bar 27 riveted to its upper edge.

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This plate is stiifened at intervals by the vertical posts 28 and diagonal braces 29, which posts and braces are of any preferred metallic construction, being shown as an gle-bars. The side plates 25, together with the top and bottom angles and stiffening members, form plategirders, being secured at their ends directly to the bolsters by means of the angle-bar 15.

The vertical posts 28 and diagonal braces 29 are placed inside of the sheets 25, with their projecting flanges directed toward the center of the car. At the body-bolsters twoanglebars 30 are employed to form the post, these angle-bars having their inwardly-projecting flanges secured together and form, in effect, a T-bar. A single T-bar might be used'for this purpose. -All of these posts and bars project upwardly above the plates 25 to the top of the car, and at the corners of the cars are angle-posts 31, secured to the underframing and also rising to the top of the car. On the ends of the car intermediate the corners are other angle-posts 32, also rising to the top of the car, these'being placed outside of the body. The tops of the side posts are riveted to a'top rail or plate 33, which is shown as an angle having its vertical flange lying outside of the posts and braces, and either riveted directly thereto or connected thereto by connectionplates 34. The horizontal flange of this angle projects inwardly.

The vertical posts 28 and 30 and diagonal braces 29, together with the top chord 33and bottom chord 25, form, in effect, a truss, which is supported at its ends at the body-bolsters. The car sides therefore are of. compound type, being partly plate-girders and partly trusses, and these serve the function of not only confining the lading but also carry a very material part'of the load.

The part of the car sides above the plategirder 25 is filled in with metal of an open construction, such as the open-mesh expanded metal 35. At the middle of the car above the plate-girder 25 is located a side door 36, which is composed of a rectangular frame of anglebars and filled in with expanded metal. The sides of the car at the ends beyond the bodybolsters are formed by a triangular-shaped plate 36 and expanded. metal 37 above the same, these parts extending from the posts 30 out to the corners of the car and from the top thereof down to the inclined floor-plates 11. The end of the car is formed by a top angle-rail 40, expanded metal 41 below the same, and the end plate 42 below the expanded metal. Thisend plate has its lower edge flanged inwardly at 43 to form a support for the inclined floor-plates 11.

The inclined end portions of the car are supported by diagonal braces 44, riveted to the side plates 36 and extending downwardly and riveted to the subside sills 45, which extendfrom the body-bolsters out to the corhere of the car. A. transverse floor-support J 46 is located underneath the inclined floor plates 11 and is supported by means of struts 47, extending diagonally downwardly and outwardly therefrom and. having their lower ends secured to the draft-beams by means of gusset-plates 48.

The inclined floor-plates l1 extend downwardly practically to the lower edge of the center sills. The center sills are covered by a longitudinal ridge formed of plates 50, which are flanged at their upper edges and riveted together and which extend downwardly at the sides of the center sills and are then bent outwardly, as at 51, and form the inside hopper-sheets. Inclined plates 52 are riveted to the lower edges of the car sides and form the outer hopper-sheets. Door-hinge lugs are secured to theshccts 51 and 52.

The end hopper-sheets 53 are riveted directly to the lower ends of the inclined floorplates 11 and are flanged at their lower edges to stiiien the same. The hoppers are divided transversely of the car by means of box-like diaphragms or transoms, which also serve to tie the car sides and center sills together and stifien the entire car-frame. These box diaphragms or transoms are each composed of a pair of plates 54, which extend from the center sills to the car sides and have their upper edges practically level with the upper edges of the center sills. These plates haveinwardlyturned flanges formed at their upper edges, to which is riveted a transverse connecting and cover plate 55, which extends continuously across the center sills, suitable open ings being formed in the longitudinal ridge to permit the same to pass through. The plates 54 extend downwardly to the bottoms of the hopper and have their lower edges flanged to strengthen the same. Between the plates 54, practically at a level with the bottom edge of the center sills, is a cross connecting member 58, which consists of a plate having its edges at the end bent to form flanges 59, whereby it is riveted to the plates 54 and having its central portion flat and extending underneath the center sills and riveted thereto. This plate 58 serves as a crossconnector and also serves in conjunction with the plates 54 and top connecting member 55 to make a box-girder. A brace 7 7 is secured between the diaphragm-plates 54 near the apices thereof.

The lower edges of the plates 54, as well as the end hopper-plates 53, are formed of inverted-V shape. There are two doors or sets of doors on each side of the caran inner set 60, hung on the hinge-butts secured to theinner hopper-sheets 51, and an outer set 61, hung on the hinge-butts secured to the outer sheets 52. These sets of doors when closed bear against the lower edges of the end hoppersheets' 53 and diaphragms 54, thus forming a V-shaped bottom for each compartment of the hopper. There are as many doors 60 and 61 as there are compartments to thehopper, four such doors being shown in each set in the particular car illustrated in the drawings. All of the doors 61 on each side of the car are connected by means of beams 64, so that, in effect, there is only a single door on the outside on each side of the car, and, if desired, the several door-sections 61 on each side of the car might be a single continuous door extending from end to end of the hopper. These outside doors 61 have connected thereto chains 65, which preferably are connected to the connecting-beams 64: and pass up around guidesheaves 66, journaled between thediaphragm plates 54 and thence outwardly and are wound on drums 67, secured, to a-winding-shaft 68, extending the length of the hoppers and journaled in suitable brackets 69, secured to the lower angle-bar 26 of. the car side and the inclined outer hopper-sheets .52. Byturning the shaft (58 all of the outer doors on thatside of the car will be operated to open or close the same. V v

v The difierent door-sections 60 for the several compartments of the hopper are connected in pairs by means of beams 70. Connected to these beams are chains 71, which pass over guide-sheaves 72, journaled between the-diaphragm-{dates 54, thence passing inwardly around guide-sheaves 73, secured to brackets depending from the centersills, and then up-- wardly and are wound on drums 74,]ocated between the center sills. Two chainsi'l from the pairs of doors on the two opposite sides of the car are wound on drums which are secured to a single winding-shaft 7 5, said shaft extending outwardly to one side of the car and being provided with an end 7 6 for the attachment or a crank or other winding means. Two such winding-shafts are shown for the car, and these are located in two of the hollow box-girder diaphragms. It will therefore be seen that there are four winding-shafts for the sixteen doors shown in the car, two of such winding-shafts extending longitudinally of the car at each side and each operating-all of the outside doors on that side of the car and two transverse shafts, each serving to operate a set of double doors on both sides of the center sills. It will be obvious, of course, that the outside doors need not be connected together by means of the beams 64, but that each door might be connected separately to the winding-shaft, and it is also obvious that the central doors 60 likewise need not be connected together in pairs; but the arrangement shown in the drawings is preferred.

The ear shown is provided with a roof, this being formed of a ridge pole or board 80 and sections 81, hinged thereto, thus forming a roof in which all parts can be turned up to give access to the interior of the car. This form of roof, however, is old and no claim is made therefor. The car may be constructed without a roof, if desired.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to soon re by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of a center sill and car sides, apair of longitudinally-arranged doors on each side oi. the center sill arranged to open in opposite directions, mechanism common to the inner doors on the two sides of the car'for opening and closing the same, and independent mechanism for opening and closing the outer doors on the two sides of the car. 2. In a railway-car, the combination of a center sill and car sides, a pair of longitudinally-arranged doors on eachside of the center sill, a longitudinally-arranged operatingshaft on each side of the car, connections between each of such longitudinalshafts and vthe outer door on that side or the car,-a trans- VerSely arrangcd operating-shaft, and connections between the same and the inner doors on both sides of the car.

3. In a railway-car, the combination of a center sill andcar sides, a plurality of pairs of longitudinally-arranged doors on each side of the center sill, alongitudinal winding-shaft on each side of the car, connections between each of such shafts and all of the outer doors on that side or the car, a transversely-arranged winding shaft or shafts, and connections between the same and a pair of inncc doors on both sides of the car.

4. In a railway-car, the combination of a center sill and car sides, a plurality of pairs of longitudinally-arranged doors between the center sill and car sides, beams connecting adjacent outer doors on each side of the car to form, in effect, a single door, beams connecting two adjacent inner doors in pairs on each side of the car, a longitudinally -arranged winding-shaft on each side of the car, connections between the same and the outer doors on the same side or the car, transversely-arranged winding-shafts, and connections between the same and a connected pair of doors on both sides of the car.

5. In a railway-car, the combination of a center sill and car sides, a pair of longitudinally-arranged doors between the center sill and car sides, a hollow transverse support extending from the center sill to the. car sides and having a pair of guide-sheaves secured therein, 'a longitudinally-arranged windingshalt at each side of the car, chains connected thereto and passing over one of the guidesheaves in the transverse support and connected to the outside door on that side of the car, a winding-shaft extending through 'the transverse support, and chains Wound thereon and passing over the other guide-sheave in the transverse support and connected to the inner doors on both sides of'the car.

6. In a railway-car, the combination of the center sill and car sides, a hopper extending below the center sills, transverse hollow diaphragms dividing said hopper into sections, said diaphragms extending from the center sills to the car sides, a pair of guide-shezwes journaled in said diaphragnis, a pair of longitudinally-arranged oppositely-opening doors for each hopper-section, a longitudinal winding-shaft, chains connected thereto and passing over one of the guide-sheaves in the hollow diaphragm and connected to the outer doors, transverse winding-shafts extending through the hollow diaphragm, a chain wound thereon and passing over the other'guidesheave in the hollow diaphragm and connected to an inner door.

'1". In a railway-car, the combination with a centersill and' car sides, body-bolsters on which the same. are supported, and hollow boxlike diaphragms connecting said sills and car, sides and lying mainly below the top of said 1 center sill.

8. In a railway-can the' combination with the hodysbolsters, of center sills and car sides supported thereon, box-like diaphragrns connecting the center sills with the car sides, and a transverse connecting member secured to said diaphragms and extending continuously across the car-sills.

9. In railway-car, the combination with the body-bolsters, of center sills and car sides supported thereon, inverted-trough-like diaphragms connecting the center sill and car sides, and a transverse connecting-plate extending underneath the center sills and being secured between the side walls of said diaphragm.

10. In a railway-car, the combination with the body-bolsters, of a center sill and car sides supported thereon, inverted-trough-like dial phragms connecting the center sills and car sides, a cross connecting-plate extending underneath the center sills and having its side edges flanged and riveted between the sides of said trough-diaphragms.

11. In a railway-ear, the combination with a body-bolster, of center sills and car sides supported thereon, hollow box-like diaphragms connected to the center sills and car sides, the top and bottom member of said diaphragms extending continuously above and beneath the center sills. V

12-. In a railway-car, the combination of a center sill and car sides, of transverse hollow connecting means between the center sill and car sides, and dividing the bottom into a series of hoppers, doors for closing said hoppers, a winding-shaft and chains connected thereto and extending through said hollow connecting meansand secured to said doors.

13. In a railway-car, the combination of a center sill and car sides, hoppers arranged on each side of the center sill, hollow diaphragms connecting the center sill and car sides, and dividing the hopper into sections, a pair of doors for each section, longitudinal beams for connecting said doors, windingshafts, and chains connected thereto and extending through said hollow diaphragms and connected to said beams.

' In testimony whereof I, the said JOHN M. HANSEN, have hereunto set my hand.

' JOHN M. HANSEN.

Witnesses:

ROBERT C. TOTTEN, G'-C. RAYMOND. 

